i. ate years in the making and the twenty eighty feet for world cup in russia is here the biggest event in full paul kicks off here in moscow just a matter of hours. i. found across the globe without force of the russian capital reveling in the festive atmosphere. but away from football this morning in some other world news the un contends israel's actions during clashes on the gaza border that left over one hundred twenty palestinians dead. good morning for me kevin though in this thursday the fourteenth of june here in

moscow is just nine am here now huge day for r.t. and russia coming up we're just hours now from the opening ceremony of the twenty eighteen feet for world cup and football fever is really in overdrive over the coming weeks we're going to have the latest from the games the fans the players from across all the host cities in the biggest country in the world russia the told me it kicks off at the luzhniki stadium here in moscow later today with a match between host russia and saudi arabia that's at six pm local time. although the total it hasn't officially kicked off quite yet fans are already been out in force has been a say in the center of moscow was crowded with thousands of chanting and singing supporters.

yeah. because. the. book a breaking news moscow has been taken over by friendly forces meeting fans from all over the world and i'm here on a mission chanting as part of football culture and i want to learn chance from different parts of the world. i don't know exactly what these guys a chance and usually but i know the channel which will make them happy guyse most salah books up close how good they can get i'm going to michigan you teach many of the egyptian chance if. i was. young.

i thought that i know. oh yeah my. day in the circle proper stop drop a fan stop. the was. the heat of the show but i know you don't want to josh. i wonder what they will be chanting tonight. how the fuck up. caribbean france and moscow one of the largest representations.

to put one out. there. rare. it's not even probably started yet a long red square in central moscow opera stars out of there is a refinement to the celebrations to. carry the message that it's music and sports are universal languages that can unite people and there was a stunning light show in the front of the iconic bolshoi theater of course there are a host cities cross russia all holding their own special events we spoke to some fans in the southern resort city of sochi that. you get when you ask them you know at the beginning we were a little bit scared to come but everything turned out great we would given everything we needed we met a lot of people not just from russia but from other countries too and there is

a very good atmosphere here he. might russians very very beautiful untasted. when i first came to sochi i said oh it's by the city the infrastructure is great and everything's very clean i expect a great atmosphere. here a very. it's very beautiful i was surprised by the place the culture and everything . also got its own top flight squad following all the twenty eighteen world cup of events here is the latest from. i didn't know what it means to. be. the world cup to all beautiful studio here

right in the heart of moscow let me use my coach for our coverage of the championship over the next month peter schmeichel the great they have very very safe pair of pants and a fantastic present have got to say you are safer hands in the studio as well as a few dusty for them and i just want to say there are two things i think that you're going to benefit from by changing into aussie during this challenging warm we're going to bring you the expert punditry inside people inside the game play is just take the sale of jersey bring young people who will know the things that you could never possibly have experienced the other thing is. just listen carefully apart from the clinking of being classes you can hear things through there was. some. in the background it's a wonderful saying wherever you're watching us from in the world i just want to take a deep breath i'm just so caught up because that's what it's about it's football it's world cup and it's here and russia risen bracing it and i hope and i believe

the funds are really bracing it so you could see thousand the football fans have over if you go over here in russia you saw them before you can hear them just have a look at this. they were very nearly. there more to look. like i did. not put out of the. but i am still going to put out the book and. the first match of the tournament kicks off with russia take saudi arabia let's see what josie marine you have to say about the opening match. russia saudi arabia huge pressure for russia the day they start the world cup at

home. the world is watching them and this is the big chance to qualify used to be the saudi arabia that in spite of some talent is a nice team is a team from a different reality and russia has to win it and you can find more of the manchester united manager is predictions if you had a. dot com you won't think he was talking nonsense if you think so challenge and head to facebook or twitter use the hash tag match for your make your own predictions and proof is not joined by the chief executive of russia's football player's union everyone i speak to that knows a russian team sort a little bit apprehensive about the politics where we are says ross and you know it's the most important game for us because the games with. your wife will follow and the mood that will be the first game is very important we have a lot of. people for saying our team is really really bad i don't think so i think

it's about that we have a lot of young guys we have some very old guys like you actually which i mean all for sports you know that's just good enough when you see very old old is a quality about thirty years younger than thirty six thirty seven we're still hopeful for all four running around like that big tournament but still i think the picture in the law will show what they've got. so the opening games at six pm moscow time we start our coverage at two pm just five hours from now the united boss the claims that will be joining us there live as well i can tell you russia saudi arabia of both held their final trading session as they both say there are going to go for victory as there would is will be play.

now of course before things are very probably got under whether there would have been a huge shot for team spain wednesday the country's football federation head coach just two days before their opening game against portugal good enough to take it was sacked after accepting the job to lead real madrid next season the better place by fernando eto here's how former spain a bus load of midfield shabby gave us his thoughts on the move. but i was making sure i think it was the correct decision otherwise

a pretty complicated situation would have emerged beauty's arrangements in particular the official arrangements with real madrid and now i want to send my best wishes to the national team so that it doesn't the fact that it seems concentration on the plays really well immersed in the competition my best wishes to the new coach. so with russia are about to open a new chapter in its football history with its first ever world cup. delves deeper into the history of the beautiful game here. the end of the nineteenth century saw the russian empire his first official football match it was played at the hippodrome in st petersburg in between horseracing the public reaction that it wasn't such a beautiful game. gentlemen sportsmen and why our roots were running round in the mud splashing down with full force in the dirt and soon turned into a chimney sweeps there was a riveting laughter among the public. over

a decade later things began to change football started to gain a foothold in russia but not without some serious help from a russian born scottish merchant and sports enthusiast named arthur macpherson and so in fact the history of russian football can be traced all the way back to glasgow shipbuilding was booming here back in the day in the mid nineteenth century and it was one of the shipyard owners murdoch fierce and who was recruited by the russians sought to become an engineer with the role fleet it's his grandson of who is to become the leading light in promoting football in russia and to help me unbearable this story i've managed to find and knowledgeable enthusiastic from the clan mcphearson itself sandy let's face it after him self he started up football in russia organized leagues use chairman of the association for two years we are very proud of him we're very proud of who he is important to the

macpherson's and to scotland at large but a scotsman was there to start off russian football how does it make you feel thinking about those links or i think it's very proud i've personally i've never been interested but i would love to go one day and never know when they make a pilgrimage i think we should be watching the world cup with great interest i think sport is a marvelous uniting influence throughout the world probably the two greatest things in sport are the olympic games and the football world cup they bring nations together the life. this in and miserably due to his prominence and position in the russian empire revolutions swept the country and he was imprisoned by the bolsheviks he died of typhoid in jail in one thousand nine hundred it's a known where his body was buried but in the loo therion smolensk cemetery in st petersburg there's a senator in his honor. we also found the great granddaughter of the macpherson lady betty glass who only very recently discovered she was related to

the footballing trailblazer it was a great discovery because i know about him but very little about what he did until fairly recently he must have put a lot and. it's good it's good or points of view because it's really rough in such a big country that it's amazing that the influence yeah there are very pleased that he was somebody who did so much as had his is his recognized as russia place host of the world cup it might be worth remembering the remarkable story of often macpherson without him the tournament might not be happening here in that era tutor r.t. . what

politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and should. somehow want to be. actually going to be for us this is what before three in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the waters about how. things should. i think it trite to imagine that i say things just to be controversial and you would not withstand the level of attacks of police harassment of detention of having my passport take ten social services being called on my children my family

being under threat of coming to jihad is plotting to behead me in nov twenty seventh t. i don't believe you would withstand those levels of people trying to trying to silence you if you didn't believe what you said. but for football now some of the news this morning it to me someone the french ambassador and rope off to president mccrone criticized italy's decision to turn away the migrant rescue boat shallow dubin ski as the details. this week humanitarian vessel was denied the right to dock at a port on italy's island of sicily the rescue ship was carrying over six hundred migrants including many unaccompanied minors and pregnant women they had been rescued off the coast of libya but are now currently on route to the port of lengthier after spanish authorities said that they could dock there well the french

president has been scathing in his attack of italy in regards to this situation describing the country's actions as being cynical and irresponsible italy is furious at that criticism by france and is demanding an apology. the french ambassador has been summoned by a foreign minister who on behalf of the italian people will ask for an explanation for the insults directed not only against the government but also against the nation which is among the first in the world in terms of generosity of solidarity to tell it to the french and the humility to apologize the story will be closed and we will work in the interests of everyone this president is said to have told a cabinet meeting that under maritime law it's dictated that in cases of distress those with the closest coastline have a responsibility to respond and in his view that was sicily but it has since emerged did leaders on the french island of corsica actually offered the vessel to

dock that before they were criticized harshly by the central government in paris so some including italy suggesting that there's some double standards when it comes to migrants and france they've also now asked france to take on nine thousand migrants from their own country. on the basis of the agreements a migrant reallocation from two thousand and fifteen friends committed itself to work in one thousand eight hundred sixty migrants and instead in three years they took six hundred forty so i asked president mccrone to move from just words to action and small. a morning welcome in one thousand migrants france promised to work and as a sign of concrete generosity and not just words. while a meeting on friday between the french and italian leaders did it look to be in jeopardy is this war of words has been escalating but we understand that it will possibly still go ahead meanwhile

a meeting between the italian finance minister who's due to come to paris to meet the french finance minister it was initially cancelled but that is said now to be back on these are tense times though between these e.u. neighbors and this is not a spot that is likely to blow over very easily. the u.n. has condemned israel's excessive use of force during clashes in gaza that left over one hundred twenty palestinians dead since the end of march israel and the united states strongly opposed the vote calling it biased and one sided while the palestinian side said the resolution was not enough the nature of this resolution clearly demonstrates that politics is driving the day it is totally one sided it makes not one mention of hamas who routinely initiate violence in gaza the need to protect our people under this occupation remains urgent and unquestionable and why should that be offending anyone we're just asking

for a simple thing we want our civilian population to be protected israel's actions have been condemned numerous times by humanitarian organizations and the israeli defense forces have been seen using live rounds against protesters time and again but nonetheless israel says its forces are simply defending the country's borders. the the. this is a a vital mistake and if people knew the true story about israel it regarding hamas this vote would not have gone this way

a lot of times these deaths of these palestinians are actually because they're using civilians as human shields and a lot of times in fact almost all the time the violence is actually initiated by hamas certainly not by israel the claim to trying to blame hamas is just a distraction it's a form of deception which they want to try to mislead the people from seeing what's pretty clear you've got unarmed protesters who are in gaza they're you know hundreds of yards from the so-called fence and they're being shot by snipers. with with live ammunition and this is what's going on there is a clear recognition that it's wrong and that there's no future in continuing this kind of old pressure. u.s. special counsel has asked a federal judge to block the disclosure of evidence that the russian company to fit in the u.s. presidential election in twenty sixty well this is the documents contained

sensitive information on investigative methods prosecutors also claim the data could be used by russian intelligence services to impede further investigations executive director ron paul institute on what adam says what is trying to save a fabricated case. mauler is scrambling to try to avoid giving evidence which may not exist the whole nature of the indictment itself was full of holes it made no sense and now that he's being told to put up or shut up he's panicking inciting national security inciting you know the hysteria that's already been created it's an example of him being caught in a p.r. stunt not expecting anyone anyone on the russian side to answer the claims to answer the accusations and then when they have his bluff has been called in so he's taking out any effort he can to avoid facing the issue meantime as prosecutors say they've uncovered evidence proving a number of other individuals and companies are continuing to interfere in u.s. politics telemarketers again this is that it's absurd therefore not to share

approve the idea that you're accused of a crime and you're not allowed to see the evidence against you is ironically this is an absolutely extraordinary case that robert mueller the special counsel is now bulking in claiming well russia is still meddling so i cannot put this evidence out to not let the defense defend itself because it would aid the russians in their continued meddling in i don't know what in america certainly to me it doesn't sound right it sounds like again they're trying to escape a trap of their own creation but just to recap briefly robert muller took over a federal government probe into alleged collusion between donald trump's campaign and russia during the twenty sixteen u.s. elections three companies and thirteen russian nationals fell under investigation only one of the companies pleaded not guilty. a time t nuclear activists have been arrested in belgium after breaking into a military base they claim the nuclear weapons stored for the last sixty years

a kept illegally they took his claim that they managed to steal some warheads and plan to give them to nato heads of state to the summit in brussels next month. some sort of as a clinical going to we're here at the prajna bruegel airbase it's a belgian airbase with american forces who are here to oversee the nuclear weapons secondarily twenty warheads held on belgian soil illegally given the belgian has signed the nonproliferation treaty so we're here with zoe a member of the eco party in the belgian parliament and a group of activists have come here to condemn the illegal placement of nuclear weapons. to say they want to remove all u.s. warheads from the country they also believe the government should sign a un nuclear weapons ban treaty according to estimates that are currently twenty u.s. warheads in belgium or one hundred fifty were sent to other countries by america including some officially non-nuclear countries one of the activists told us it was crucial to show the government the weapons should be removed as. a group we

decided to enter it is risking five years of imprisonment each person to ask the government to remove those nuclear weapon from the villages those you know we're going to be going to the united states it's not legal in our country so we really like them to be a way that is why people and even more. so people so more though. nuclear weapons making the actions all together gave me. a footnote no we didn't come about from belgian police on the case well i said so far from the says the morning you know of course but the world cup kicking off today check out our main site our team dot com huge section there with all the latest twenty four seven and of course full coverage here on the t.v. side of things too from today right up until the very last goal i'm kevin allen from way good morning.

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welcome to the alex i'm sure from the wonderful regent's park or central mosque here in london after a month of fasting as ramadan twenty thousand approaches ascent and more than one hundred fifty thousand muslims will have created over this month i need celebrations are being planned we look at what it means and its importance to muslims around the world as we talk to international aid agency islamic relief lord mr ahmed and baroness iton we also turn to the issue of slum a phobia as tensions continue to mount since home secretary sided jabot escalated arrive with the most some kinds of britain after he dejected their call for an independent inquiry into allegations of a slum of four bia within the conservative party and we speak to tory p.l.r. chief who has also called a number ten to address this matter of grave concern but first over to alex with your tweets your messages and your e-mails. first up this week is a message for c n n bob who says i'm glad there are still civilized people like you

are male alec baldwin do best in the show to raise the tone and then a few messages about season shipbuilding bogan says should be resurrecting the glasgow shipyards and those at newcastle dempsey adds great show this week very interesting views and scholarship building after india once again become a world leader and more like bronson adds another great program the scots in the park area shipbuilding in scotland and the u.k. with mixed messages from ministers i'm from a. tested me about the series we've done in shipbuilding is the absolute loyalty and commitment of the communities we refocused on those in belfast in the syphon on the clade to their ship of the tamil nation to keep them as part of the future but just part of an industrial heritage and finally this week from nelson care who says . we've been told that the despite the be the last the award invest well i'll tell

you what nelson no need for a warm vest today and i back to the we just park mosque a senior conservative peer who served as an adviser to former prime minister david cameron has written to theresa me back and calls for an inquiry into some of for be other than the party describing it as a matter of grave concern to the many muslim members and supporters of the party these claims are backed up by former tory chairperson by an s y c he says it is a simmering anti muslim underbelly of islam a phobia within the party alex nice speaks to laci. welcome to the. u. of the conservative muslim member of the house of lords but recently you've written to the prime minister expressing your consent about as within the party what provoked you to do that. unfortunately i believe that islamophobia does exist. within.